Community

A community is a group of people who live or work in the same area and who share common interests, values, and goals. Communities can be small, such as a neighborhood, or large, such as a city or a country. The members of a community may be connected by social, economic, cultural, or other ties. Communities often have a sense of identity and may have shared institutions, such as schools, religious organizations, or community centers. The strength and vitality of a community can be an important factor in the well-being of its members.

Fact check: Mask-wearing not connected to child trafficking
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Fact check: Mask-wearing not connected to child trafficking

ByEyes on Trafficking News

The claim: Mask wearing makes children more at risk for child sex trafficking Misinformation about the causes of sex trafficking and how to protect minors can be especially damaging in the fight against it, yet a web of conspiracy theories about the crime has grown over the past few years. The latest false claim is that…

“Gearing Up” for #ccahtshareyourstrides
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“Gearing Up” for #ccahtshareyourstrides

ByEyes on Trafficking News

Every runner has a favorite piece of equipment they swear by. The Piece de Resistance, so to speak – like when you were 5 and you got new shoes so you just had to show everybody how fast you could run and how high you could jump. I’ve come to notice we never actually grow out of this mindset; there are entire industries built around this idea that better equipment will make you a better athlete. While it’s an absolute truth that there are functional features that make one piece of equipment perform better than another, I’ve learned (sometimes the hard way) that what works for someone else (or comes in a pretty package), may not be the best piece of equipment for you.

My Personal Relationship With Running
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My Personal Relationship With Running

ByEyes on Trafficking News

I always hesitate when other people refer to me as a “runner”; a weird reaction for someone who runs 4-5 days per week, and has performed relatively well in any of the competitive events I have participated in. To me, “runner” is a reference to those professional athletes who compete in events and are basically superhuman. My personal running adventure will likely never get to this level of intensity, but my relationship with running helps shape the person I am, and in doing so serves as my own personal superhero weapon. Over the course of the next few weeks, to celebrate Share your Strides, I will share insight into my own personal world of running. I have no particular expertise or professional experience—but I can offer you several years’ worth of wisdom based on hundreds of miles of experience. Today I will start at the core—why do I run?

‘Save the Children’ and the Truth About Human Trafficking in East Tennessee
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‘Save the Children’ and the Truth About Human Trafficking in East Tennessee

ByEyes on Trafficking News

While this hashtag may have started out with good intentions to spread awareness about human trafficking, many popular social media hashtags and movements can devolve into perpetuating something more mythical than grounded. Some of these movements can sometimes cast a shadow over the truth of the survivors we have the privilege to serve. It is a smokescreen for human traffickers. This is dangerous.

Psychological Effects of Human Trafficking: How Can You Help? [Part 3] (from Community Coalition Against Human Trafficking)
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Psychological Effects of Human Trafficking: How Can You Help? [Part 3] (from Community Coalition Against Human Trafficking)

ByEyes on Trafficking News

Part three in a three-part series written by CCAHT therapist, Amy Canfield. In the previous segments of this three-part series (catch part one and part two, if you missed them), we (at Community Coalition Against Human Trafficking) discussed how traffickers use complex tactics to control victims through force, coercion and fraud. These tactics often lead…

Police use Interactive Virtual Reality Training to Raise Awareness of Human Trafficking
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Police use Interactive Virtual Reality Training to Raise Awareness of Human Trafficking

ByBilly Joe Cain

Houston Police try ONE GENERATION™ and TRAPPED: A VR Detective Story from Radical Empathy Radical Empathy Education Foundation demonstrated their Virtual Reality training experience, TRAPPED: A VR Detective Story, at A 2nd Cup, in Houston Texas, and were honored to have a few moments with an expert in the field. Their VR experience represents the “Empathy”…

Surviving Human Trafficking In The United States
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Surviving Human Trafficking In The United States

ByEyes on Trafficking News

“How do you define and measure success?” This question is asked in each Human Trafficking Investigations Law Enforcement Class by Rick Hoffman. Success and achievement can look different to different people. As a nonprofit whose focus is to stop human trafficking, a victim escaping their trafficker, the recovery of a person being trafficked, facilitating 30…

Hackathon To Find Solutions For Tackling Child Abduction And Trafficking
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Hackathon To Find Solutions For Tackling Child Abduction And Trafficking

ByEyes on Trafficking News

08/16/2019  San Francisco, California, United States HackerEarth, a leader in developer assessment software and ERASE Child Trafficking, an organization that supports law enforcement through human trafficking investigations training, together announce the launch of the “Missing Hackathon”. The hackathon is aimed at developing technological solutions to tackle the issues around child abduction and trafficking. According to the FBI’s…

Conflict, climate change among factors that increase ‘desperation that enables human trafficking to flourish’, says UN chief
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Conflict, climate change among factors that increase ‘desperation that enables human trafficking to flourish’, says UN chief

ByEyes on Trafficking News

According to the UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), some 72 per cent of detected victims are women and girls, and the percentage of child victims has more than doubled from 2004 to 2016. “Most detected victims are trafficked for sexual exploitation; victims are also trafficked for forced labour, recruitment as child soldiers and…